http://www.salientmarketing.com/resource-category/search-engines-101/archie-the-grandfather-of-all-search-engines-1989/ Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:12:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.salientmarketing.com/resource-category/search-engines-101/archie-the-grandfather-of-all-search-engines-1989/comment-page-1/#comment-16 20 years ago… Archie, the world’s first search engine is developed | Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:41:01 +0000 http://www.salientmarketing.com/search-engines-101/history-of-search-engines/archie-the-grandfather-of-all-search-engines-1989/#comment-16 [...] There is some discrepancies on whether the world’s first search engine, dubbed “Archie” (short for archive), was founded in 1989 or 1990.  According to the Archie wikipedia page, it was in 1990 when Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and J. Peter Deutsch, students at McGill University in Montreal, developed this tool for indexing FTP archives in order to make it easier for students to research and find information on public FTP sites. According to this blog post at Salient Marketing located in Ottawa, Archie was first developed in 1989. [...] [...] There is some discrepancies on whether the world’s first search engine, dubbed “Archie” (short for archive), was founded in 1989 or 1990.  According to the Archie wikipedia page, it was in 1990 when Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and J. Peter Deutsch, students at McGill University in Montreal, developed this tool for indexing FTP archives in order to make it easier for students to research and find information on public FTP sites. According to this blog post at Salient Marketing located in Ottawa, Archie was first developed in 1989. [...]

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